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The online sales of smartphones, laptops and tablets in the first quarter of 2019

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The diagram illustrates the online sales of three different types of gadgets and they are smartphones,
laptops
 and
tablets
 in the first four months of 2019.
Overall
,smartphones were the best seller in
March
 reaching 70
million
units
.Meanwhile,
laptops
 were the best sellers in
January
 and April at 50
million
 and 55
million
units
 respectively .
However
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 in February,
tablets
 peaked at 65
million
units
 and were the best seller among the others.
At
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 the beginning,
tablets
 had 30
million
unit
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units
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 sold. Tablet sales increased and remained the same at 65
million
units
 in February and
march
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March
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. In the
last
 month,
tablets
 rapidly decreased to 25
million
units
 lower than the beginning of the period.Meanwhile, smartphones increased from 45 to 65
million
units
 from
January
 to
March
.
However
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 in April,
smartphone's
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smartphone
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 purchases dropped to approximately 25
million
units
.Laptop users in
January
 reached 50
million
units
.
While
 in February,
laptops
 were purchased at approximately 35
million
units
,declined moderately in
march
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March
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 and hit the bottom at 25
million
units
.
While
, in the
last
 period
laptops
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laptop
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 consumers went back to the
January
 number of sales
units
, which was around 50
millions
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million
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.
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